A historian reminds us that to truly “make America great again” we must enhance freedom, equality and democracy, not diminish them.

We are the heirs of Thomas Paine — let's remember his words and spirit of resistance against injustice at the dawn of the Trump era.

The election results may have been different had Democrats embraced America's past and its radical imperative of freedom, equality and democracy.

Anyone who thinks social democracy is un-American doesn't know their history, writes historian Harvey J. Kaye.

For more than 200 years, American exceptionalism was the idea of liberals and progressives. It was an idea about what America could be, should be and, if we act on it, would be.

This July 4, cherish the words of the Declaration but also summon Thomas Paine's spirit to remind yourself that we can, if we really care, pick up the broken thread of democratic zeal. An essay by Bill Moyers and Bernie Weisberger.

We need to articulate America’s democratic purpose and remind ourselves and our fellow citizens what it means to be an American, writes Harvey Kaye.

Thanks to an eleventh-hour settlement the US has supposedly escaped fiscal doomsday, but historian Bernard Weisberger writes that it feels more like a stay of execution than the end of a crisis.

Historian Bernard Weisberger writes it's time retire the outworn American creed. Its hidden core of arrogance has often turned it into a kind of nationalism-on-steroids.

On the 200th anniversary of Thomas Paine's death, Bill sits down with two historians to assess Paine's life and impact.